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Steve Minton is Associate Professor in Applied and Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, where he directs research for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme. A chartered psychologist and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he previously lectured in Psychology of Education at Trinity College Dublin, serving as Director of Studies for doctoral research degrees there from 2012 to 2018 and continuing that role at Plymouth since 2019. He leads modules on the DClinPsy programme, contributes to other psychology teaching, and has chaired PhD viva voce examinations as internal examiner.
Minton's research specializations in applied and clinical psychology include bullying and cyberbullying, marginalisation and aggression from bullying to genocide, Indigenous residential schools, gender-role journeys and masculinities, mental health impacts of financial hardship, secure attachment relationships in adopted children, addiction and recovery, menopause experiences among women with learning disabilities, anti-racism training, biculturalism in clinical psychology, and decolonising DClinPsy research spaces. His key publications encompass books such as Marginalisation and Aggression from Bullying to Genocide: Critical Educational and Psychological Perspectives, Using Psychology in the Classroom, Dealing with Bullying in Schools: A Training Manual for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals (co-authored with Astrid Mona O’Moore), Cyber-Bullying: The Irish Experience, and Residential Schools and Indigenous Peoples: From Genocide via Education to the Possibilities for Processes of Truth, Restitution, Reconciliation and Recovery; and recent articles including UK Men’s Experience of the Gender-Role Journey and Implications for Clinicians and Mental Health Services (2023), Do not forget them (Aeon, 2023), How are secure attachment relationships fostered through talk between teachers and students who have been adopted? A conversation analysis (2023), and ‘It should be more outspoken and not hushed away, not like put in a dark box’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of experiences of menopause voiced by women with learning disabilities (2023). He won the Faculty of Health Inspirational Teacher of the Year Award at the 2021 UPSU SSTAR Awards and was highly commended runner-up in the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion category of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards. Minton is a member of the Faculty of Health's Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Editorial Board of the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, British Psychological Society's Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology, and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Inquiries Circle at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry; he is also an affiliate member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.

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